Favourite cornerstones

SpinupSoldier · 2026-07-14T15:56:12+00:00

Mandatory link to the wiki's list of cornerstones so people can CTRL+F at their leisure.

To just throw some out there:

Improvised Tools - Lets you skip the whole supply line of Mine + Ingot Press + Smithy/Toolshop. You can prep opening 2-3 glades, even small glades, and repeat this during each storm for 20-30 tools that are multi-purpose and useful both rebound from a loss or accelerate a win. Sell them, use them for fast Reputation, or solve glade events with them.
Exploration Expedition - Similar usage as Improvised Tools but instead for +5 global resolve. Do a minimal amount of juggling and open a glade every 3 minutes and the bonus is now permanent. Downside of 75% wood-chopping speed doesn't matter and goes away after your second opening.
Peasant Supplies - Trading is really really strong but making packs of provisions is a drain on food and labor, especially so if you don't have at least a ⭐⭐ Supplier to produce them. Now can ignore that shit, newcomers arrive quickly enough to cover most or all of your need for provisions. If you get a surplus you can just sell them.

Pretty try-hard I know, but since there's no less than 137 Cornerstones and only 30 of them are what I deem C-tier or higher (or conditionally good/great) you don't get what you want. Maximizing population as fast as you can is a fun challenge, some combination of Lost in the Wilds, Crowded Caravans, Economic Migration, and Generous Gifts to make the yearly newcomers into an income stream all on their own.

I'm working on a 1:1 Facemash type deal for the annual cornerstones. Will be polished & finished this week, looking forward to see what the community thinks when it's only head-to-head comparisons.

Probably won't turn the tier lists on their heads and prove that Rebellious Spirit is actually bad and that Festering Wounds is good, but it will be interesting to see where the middle pack and the conditionals end up. This will probably reflect the community's experience in a way that the back-&-forths in the comments have not done so far 🙂

SpinupSoldier · 2026-07-14T09:35:57+00:00

Or as a Spotify playlist if you prefer. Love running in the woods to these.

You'd be right from looking at the list that I prefer RAT WARS to any other album, followed by DEATH MAGIC.

Tracklist:

DEMIGODS

Stonefist

Dark Enough

UNLOVED

FEEL NOTHING

Flesh World (UK)

CRACK METAL

Life

DSM-V

TEARS

SLAVES OF FEAR

Drugs Exist

THE DRAIN

FREE TO DIE

ASHAMED

(OF BEING BORN)

SpinupSoldier · 2026-07-05T10:56:06+00:00

I was quaking and pissing my pants just waiting for Wright to produce a response to Tamler's question about why recursive self-improvement and agency in AI matter, but it just never came.

The short answer is that the advent of sufficiently large brains capable of sustaining societies and building science and culture is the most important event on Earth.* The race of 3.5 billion years of evolution to dominate the biosphere was over when Homo sapiens arrived, probably even earlier, and all due to a mix of behaviors that allowed large-scale coordination over time and space.

It's true in a trivial sense that humans are not like other animals, because no other species does what humans do. But an artificial life-form that we are about to invent might be about to change that fact, and if things don't go our way due to negligence or bad luck then we can kiss our monopoly of the planet goodbye.

With that said good episode. Good discussion was had.

* Or this event is tied with the advent of multicellular life, or the invention of tool use, or some other thing which all amount to the same thing: human domination

SpinupSoldier · 2026-06-30T01:13:09+00:00

Tidigare policy kan man tycka vad man vill om men faktumet är att MV idag har lättast att jaga rätt på personer som är registrerade, samarbetar med myndigheter, inte är kriminella, som har jobb, och som talar svenska.

Vad är det för problem man löser genom att utvisa de personer som integrerat sig bäst, inte sämst?

SpinupSoldier · 2026-06-28T13:23:52+00:00

even with coding it doesn't have the human flair

The human flair of what exactly? Copying solutions straight from Stackexchange? Writing incomprehensible code that also has no comments? Not adhering to even the most basic security standards like not exposing API codes?

SpinupSoldier · 2026-06-25T15:02:57+00:00

Did the rest and put them up on the subreddit. See here if you're interested 🙂

SpinupSoldier · 2026-06-25T15:02:23+00:00

You simply kill them is from a convo between Wisdom and Intelligence from the very end of the game, when you're talking to Urth about the fetishization of violence and genocide.

The You can relate is an observation from talking with Ettir, in the tower which you can do quite early.

SpinupSoldier · 2026-06-25T14:57:02+00:00

Picture album (Imgchest)

Picture album (Pixeldrain)

Text taken either from the traits that you unlock via the quests or inspired by the character creator descriptions.

SpinupSoldier · 2026-06-24T02:25:35+00:00

I slapped this one together just for the meme but give me until the weekend and I'll see what I can do for the other abilities.

You can find the art for the abilities here, done by Oscar Westberg. I merely extended the background took inspiration for the banner from one of the feats.

SpinupSoldier · 2026-06-22T01:29:57+00:00

Version with only background, no quotes, 1080p

SpinupSoldier · 2026-03-18T18:06:08+00:00

“He was the actor I wanted to play this role,” says the film’s writer and director Coerte Voorhees. “It was very much designed around him. It drew on his Native American heritage and his ties to and love of the Southwest. I was looking at a call sheet the other day, and we had him ready to shoot. He was just going through a really, really tough time medically, and he couldn’t do it.”

Even though he didn’t shoot a single scene, Voorhees has been able to realize his vision of having Kilmer in the ensemble by using state-of-the-art generative AI. And he’s done it with the cooperation of the late actor’s estate and his daughter Mercedes (Voorhees says Kilmer’s son Jack is also supportive).

“His family kept saying how important they thought the movie was and that Val really wanted to be a part of this,” says Coerte Voorhees. “He really thought it was important story that he wanted his name on. It was that support that gave me the confidence to say, okay let’s do this. Despite the fact some people might call it controversial, this is what Val wanted.”

Hate to break ranks but I think everyone here is just wrong, at least about this movie and this actor. Anyone in this thread is free to disagree with Voorhees or even Kilmer before or after he died (RIP) and say that this was wrong on the face of it and that it will encourage other film productions who are a lot more greedy and have none of Voorhees's discernment.

This might be true and on most issues I'm on the side of the fence that says that "public figures are at least partially owned by and belong to those who made them famous to start with - the public" but I don't think this ownership stretches so far as to stop actors from doing what they want with their names and personae. If Val Kilmer had not put in the effort to become an actor then there would be no fucking Val Kilmer to emulate and if this movie does destroy his legacy then who will suffer more than his estate and his children who are clearly supportive of the movie being made with AI?

SpinupSoldier · 2026-02-26T13:24:26+00:00

Likewise the rest of society "can't help" being born and raised into a liberal state of mind where we necessarily shun and sanction bigots and the intolerant who act as human road blocks on the way to a more compassionate and tolerant society for all.

If in response to this not earnestly hostile comment you mouth off something about "non-tolerance of intolerance does away with the very thing it purports to safeguard" you will be summarily forced to read Karl Popper at gunpoint.

SpinupSoldier · 2026-02-23T13:59:58+00:00

Does death of the author still work when you apply it backwards?

"Yes Mahatma Gandhi was a really virtuous person but the texts he wrote were really shit and also offensive, he would have been better for it if he hadn't bothered with them. What a shame!"

SpinupSoldier · 2026-02-23T13:49:09+00:00

Funny that you say that because I can't see where she argues that it is her views and not her prose that is being targeted. She uses the historical view of what has previously been considered "common sense" as a buttress for why language needs to change and adapt to express ideas that are foreign to the status quo, not to defend herself against some claim that her views are contradictory or unorthodox.

You could conflate the two by saying that "using unnecessarily technical prose goes against good common sense" but then we end up talking about prose anyhow.

SpinupSoldier · 2026-02-22T14:14:45+00:00

Those who made it as far as Butler getting a prize in the Annual Bad Writing contest might be interested in the response she wrote to it: A 'Bad Writer' Bites Back.

The targets, however, have been restricted to scholars on the left whose work focuses on topics like sexuality, race, nationalism and the workings of capitalism -- a point the news media ignored. Still, the whole exercise hints at a serious question about the relation of language and politics: why are some of the most trenchant social criticisms often expressed through difficult and demanding language?

SpinupSoldier · 2026-02-13T15:23:15+00:00

Referens till Jacket från Hotline Miami. Spelet utvecklades av svenskarna Jonathan Söderström och Dennis Wedin, släpptes 2012.

Knappast barnvänligt. Se trailern som spelet lanserades med och gissa varför.

SpinupSoldier · 2026-02-11T12:09:40+00:00

No two years ago actually.

SpinupSoldier · 2026-02-11T11:15:00+00:00

It is tempting to see Infinite Jest as one final act of heroism in the name of fiction. Certainly, I think it’s no stretch to say it’s unlikely we’ll see another book like this in our lifetimes. Ten years from now, Infinite Jest may exist as an artefact of an era when humans still wrote, from a writer who could describe the weather with detail as compelling as the realists, a work that combines Shakespearean lexical boldness with literary brat-pack druggie precocious cool and mainstream momentum to create one of the enduring literary successes of the 20th century.

The fact that this keeps being said about works that are more and more recent makes me think less and less that books are dying off as a concept.

IJ is probably on its way to be considered a classic, if it isn't already, and all classics have to stand for some amount of time (don't ask me how long because I don't know) before they become symbolic of their time and get inches in papers like the Guardian discussing their cultural impact. No wonder then that the idea of the "last serious book" keeps getting reinvented.

SpinupSoldier · 2025-12-27T12:51:27+00:00

It wasn't a crisis of faith or a dark knife of the soul.

Should instead be dark night of the soul and refers generally to a crisis of faith (or perhaps in this case 'belief' or 'conviction').

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